​The organizers of the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the year, have announced the schedule for Tuesday, January 17, with Romanians Sorana Kirstia, Patricia Sieg and Iryna Begu taking the stage, as well as many of the competition’s favorites in Melbourne.

Sorana Kirstea, Patricia Sig and Iryna Begu to debut on Tuesday at Australian Open 2023

On court 16 a match between Sorana Kirstea (42 WTA) and Yulia Putintseva (47 WTA).

The match will be the third in this arena after Diane Parry – Taylor Townsend and Alejandro Davydovich Fokin – Oleksandr Bublyk. The match could start after some time time 05:30 (Romanian time).

Kirstya and Putintseva met five more times: our athlete won in Majorca-2016 and Nuremberg-2017, and the Kazakh won in Kontreksvil-2015, Istanbul-2018 and Nuremberg-2019.

Patricia Maria Sig (790 WTA – protected rating) will meet on Shuai Zhang (24 WTA, favorite 23) in the third match on Court 14. This will be the first match between the two players.

In the first matches in this arena, Zizu Bergs – Laszlo Jere and Ben Shelton – Zhizhen Zhang will meet, and Patricia’s match may start after the time is 06:00 (Romanian time).

After that, the match will take place on the same field Iryna Begu (28 WTA and seed number 27) with an American Elizabeth Mandlik (130 WTA). The two never met again on a WTA tour.

Exciting women’s matches on day two of the Australian Open 2023

Aryna Sabalenko (favorite 5) – Tereza Martintsova (73 WTA) / time 02:00

Garbiñe Muguruza (58 WTA) – Elise Mertens (favorite 26) / time 02:00

Leila Fernandez (39 WTA) – Alize Cornet (34 WTA) / time 02:00

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (365 WTA) – Kamila Giorgi (69 WTA) / time 02:00

Isalin Bonaventure (92 WTA) – Kateryna Alexandrova (favorite 19) / time 02:00

Catherine Sebov (191 WTA) – Caroline Garcia (favourite 4) / approximately 03:30

Xiu Wang (WTA 49) – Karolina Pliskova (30 favorite) / approximately 03:30

Annette Kontaveit (favourite 16) – Julia Grabher (83 WTA) / approx. 03:30

Maryna Zanaevska (87 WTA) – Veronika Kudermetova (favorite 9) / approximately 06:30

Jasmin Paolini (65 WTA) – Lyudmila Samsonova (favorite 18) / approximately 07:00

Daria Kasatkina (favorite 8) – Varvara Grachova (98 WTA) / approximately 08:30

Beatrice Haddad Maia (favourite 14) – Nuria Parrizas Diaz (77 WTA) / approximately 08:30

Tamara Zidansek (88 WTA) – Ons Jabert (favourite 2) / 10:00

Victoria Tomova (91 WTA) – Belinda Bencic (favorite 15) / time 10:00.

Australian Open 2023 will be held from January 16 to 29. The champions of the title were Ashley Barty (now retired from sports) and Rafael Nadal.

The Australian Open has been held at Melbourne Park since 1988 (this will be the 55th edition of the Open Era) and the main arenas are:

Rod Laver Arena – 14,820 seats

John Cain Arena – 10,300 seats

Margaret Court Arena – 7500 seats

Kia Arena – 5000 seats.

Australian Open 2023 prizes in euros

Champion ~ 1.89 million euros

Finalist ~ 1.03 million euros

Semi-final ~ €587,000

Apartments ~ 352,400 euros

Optimal ~ 338,250 euros

III round ~ 214,700 euros

II round ~ 100,800 euros

I round ~ 67,400 euros.